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Happy birthday to Mom, who’s just celebrated her ''94th''! She’s officially left the category of “elderly” and moved on to “ancient”!<br />
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Since her (Gregorian calendar) birthday fell out on the fast of the 17th of ''Tammuz'', we watched her eat a birthday cupcake. At least it didn’t fall on 9th ''Av''! She’s in good enough condition that I wouldn’t be surprised if she has another 20 years in her. Picking the right ancestors for their good genes is important!<br />
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I really was wondering just how 2020 was going to out-do itself. Really, it’s been quite the year so far! Well wonder no longer: [https://reason.com/2020/07/05/kanye-west-tweets-that-hes-running-for-president/ President Kanye West], anyone? Or perhaps this insightful article from “The Guardian” [https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jul/06/upward-thrusting-buildings-ejaculating-cities-sexist-leslie-kern-phallic-feminist-city-toxic-masculinity about sexist architecture]? Or perhaps, this article pondering whether or not [http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/283222 Alexander Hamilton] was, in fact, Jewish (hint: even if the suppositions were all true, he wouldn’t have been ''halakhically'' Jewish — and anyway, who actually cares)?<br />
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These nuggets aren’t by any means the most ridiculous things I encountered just this week; but they’re probably the least offensive to normal people. Think on that, my friends.<br />
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In more important news: our gardener came this week. He looked at what I had done in the garden, and yelled at me. He larned me what I should have done, and what I needed yet to do. Suitably abashed, I went to an actual garden-stuff-store and got real garden-stuff-supplies and hooked it all up as per said gardener’s instructions. Lo and behold! it works like a champ. Who knew the gardener would know about gardening stuff?<br />
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You’re never too old to get scolded!<br />
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In other important news: we went to a local store to get potables for ''shabbat''. While we were checking-out, the guy behind the counter said to me, “What’s your accent? You’re certainly not Ashkenazi!”. Me. Quite possibly the person with the lightest skin in a 20km radius. It was the nicest thing anyone had said to me all week!<br />
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I do tend to confuse Israelis. My accent is ''almost'' native Israeli but not quite; so they think I was probably born here but lived outside the country for some number of years. Rarely do they suspect I’m ‘Murican. And since I pronounce the “hard” letters properly (the ‘ע’ and ‘ח’ at least, and sometimes ‘ר’ when I remember), they tend to wonder if, despite my [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albedo high albedo], I might nevertheless have non-Ashkenazi ancestry. Heh.<br />
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I’m still waiting for a bug-fix from the guy I mentioned last week. He was still floating on the high-sea as of mid-week, which means I have to wait until he anchors or drowns. The former, preferably…<br />
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The weather is the same as it was last week, as I mentioned it would be, last week.<br />
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This ''shabbat'' we’ll make our feasting efforts on:<br />
homemade ''ḥalla'',<br />
“spicy” ribs,<br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chraime ''chraime''],<br />
various ''salatim'',<br />
probably other things as well,<br />
and birthday cupcakes.<br />
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Until next time,<br><br />
''shabbat shalom''!<br />
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